2023-05-22 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด I – Intelligent & intellectual

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Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง Intelligent = ‘in-TEL-i-juhnt’

ออกเสียง intellectual = ‘in-tl-EK-choo-uhl’

 

Dictionary.com

SYNONYM STUDY FOR INTELLIGENT

Intelligent, intellectual describe distinctive mental capacity.

 

Intelligent often suggests a natural quickness of understanding: 

an intelligent reader. 

Intellectual implies 

not only having a high degree of understanding, 

but also a capacity and taste for the higher forms of knowledge: 

intellectual interests. 

 

Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree

intelligent

= wise, shrewd, having the capacity for thought and reason: 

The professor is an intelligent man.

Not to be confused with:

intelligible 

= well articulated or enunciated and loud enough 

to be heard; can be understood: 

He was an intelligible speaker.

 

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language

in·tel′li·gen′tial (-jĕn′shəl) adj.

in·tel′li·gent·ly adv.

Synonyms: intelligent, bright, brilliant, smart, intellectual
These adjectives mean having or showing mental keenness. 

 

Intelligent usually implies the ability to cope with new problems 

and to use the power of reasoning and inference effectively: 

The company put its most intelligent engineers to work on rectifying the design flaw. 

 

Bright implies quickness or ease in learning: 

She was a bright student who was soon at the head of the class. 

Brilliant suggests unusually impressive mental acuteness: 

"The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end" (Max Beerbohm).

Smart refers to quick intelligence and often a ready capability for taking care of one's own interests: 

You were smart to buy your house when prices were low. 

 

Intellectual implies the capacity 

to grasp difficult or abstract concepts: 

The former professor was the more intellectual candidate.

 

Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression

Intelligent & intellectual

An Intelligent person is quick to comprehend 

and understand, has a high mental capacity, 

has the ability to reason clearly.

 

An Intellectual person has not only a high degree of understanding but also a clear, distinct, and active taste 

and capacity for higher forms of knowledge.

An animal can be Intelligent but not Intellectual; 

a distinguished professor is Intellectual 

and is presumed to be Intelligent.

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Intellection

Smart is an Old English-derived word; 

intellectual is a Latin-derived word. 

Like most synonyms, 

they overlap rather than duplicate meanings. 

And like most pairs of words 

with one each from these particular family groups, 

the one with roots in Old English is the everyday, household word (“knowledgeable”) while the one with Latin roots is more fancy and hifalutin (“chiefly guided by the intellect rather than emotion”). 

There is a related and arguably fancier word meaning “thinking”: 

intellection. 

Intellection means “the act of the intellect” 

or “exercise of the intellect,” 

a synonym of thought and reasoning.

 

The greater emotional distance of many Latin-derived words 

in English makes intellection 

a perfect term for dispassionate analysis, 

and has been used in theological writing 

and literary criticism for centuries:

 

Outside of these contexts, 

intellection serves a way of emphasizing thought 

or thinking in a positive way and contrasting it with the alternative:

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Choose the Right Synonym for intelligent

INTELLIGENT, CLEVER, ALERT, QUICK-WITTED 

mean mentally keen or quick. 

 

INTELLIGENT stresses success in coping with new situations 

and solving problems.  

an intelligent person could assemble it fast  

CLEVER implies native ability or aptness and sometimes suggests a lack of more substantial qualities. 

clever with words 

 

ALERT stresses quickness in perceiving and understanding. 

alert to new technology 

 

QUICK-WITTED implies promptness in finding answers in debate or in devising expedients in moments of danger or challenge.  

no match for his quick-witted opponent

Choose the Right Synonym for intelligent

INTELLIGENT, CLEVER, and BRILLIANT 

mean having a good amount of mental ability.

 

INTELLIGENT is used of a person who can handle new situations and solve problems.  

We need an intelligent person to run the company.  

 

CLEVER is used of a person who learns very quickly.  

The clever youngster learned the trick in a few minutes.  

BRILLIANT is used of a person whose mental ability is much greater than normal.  

A brilliant doctor discovered the cure for that disease.